Letter F — Brands

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Falcon Bravo is a small Spanish loudspeaker maker based in Toledo, whose first and so far only product is The Dome, a two-way stand-mount design. The company presents its work as research into materials and enclosure geometry aimed at controlled disp...

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Feliks Audio is a Polish family company that has built vacuum-tube amplifiers in Lubliniec since 1999, when electronics engineer Henryk Feliks turned a hobby into a business. The first model to find a wide audience was the Espressivo headphone amplif...

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Fender Audio is the consumer electronics label of Fender Musical Instruments Corporation, the American guitar and amplifier maker founded in 1946. The brand is not run by Fender itself - it is operated under licence by Riffsound Pte. Ltd. of Singapor...

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Fender Musical Instruments Corporation is an American maker of electric guitars, basses and guitar amplifiers, founded in 1946 by Clarence Leonidas (Leo) Fender in Fullerton, California. It is the company behind the Stratocaster, Telecaster, Precisio...

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Ferrum Audio is a Polish maker of headphone amplifiers, DACs and power supplies, launched in early 2020 by HEM, an electronics design firm based in Pruszkow near Warsaw. HEM spent around two decades designing and building equipment for other companie...

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Fezz Audio is a Polish maker of valve amplifiers from the Podlasie region in north-eastern Poland, run as an offshoot of Toroidy, a toroidal transformer business that Lech Lachowski founded in 1991. The brand showed its first amplifier, the Silver Lu...

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FiiO is a Chinese maker of portable and desktop audio equipment, founded in 2007 in Guangzhou by former senior staff of Oppo. It started with affordable portable hi-fi devices and now employs more than 300 people, producing digital audio players, hea...

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Final is a Japanese headphone and in-ear monitor maker based in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture. Its roots go back to 1974, when engineer Kanemori Takai started Final Audio Research, whose early catalog included reel-to-reel recorders and loudspeakers ...

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FIR Audio, a US earphone specialist, was founded in 2018 in Vancouver, Washington, by brothers Bogdan and Alex Belonozhko together with Daniel Lifflander The three brought more than two decades of combined experience from earlier work at 64 Audio. Th...

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First Watt is an American amplifier brand set up by Nelson Pass in 1998 as a small venture running alongside Pass Labs, the company he founded in 1991. It builds low-power solid-state amplifiers in limited numbers, usually Class A circuits with littl...

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Fischer & Fischer is a German loudspeaker maker in Schmallenberg, in the Sauerland region, founded in 1981 by Thomas Fischer and Heinz Fischer. For more than four decades it has made only speaker systems, and nearly every cabinet is built from natura...

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Fjord Audio, a tube amplifier company from South Korea, is headquartered in the Mapo district of Seoul and led by CEO Fjord Chang. It is a young company that builds power amplifiers, preamplifiers and phono stages around pure Class A operation and ci...

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Fleetwood Sound Company is a US speaker company from Fleetwood, Pennsylvania, set up by the team behind Oswalds Mill Audio as a more attainable line built under the same roof. Its products are high-efficiency horn speakers in solid hardwood cabinets,...

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Fluance is a Canadian audio company founded in 1999 by Deepak Jain and headquartered in Niagara Falls, Ontario. It is known for belt-drive turntables, powered speakers and home theater speaker packages sold directly online, and it marked its 25th ann...

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Fluid Audio, trading as Fluid Audio LLC, is a studio monitor brand that makes affordable monitoring gear for home recording, project studios and content creators. It was started by Kevin Zuccaro, an audio engineer and product designer who previously ...

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FLUO is a British high-end audio brand based in Winchester, England, operating under Audio Power Operations AG. Its name stands for Fast Linear Ultimate Operation, and it makes a turntable, a preamplifier and power amplifiers built around reducing el...

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FM Acoustics is a Swiss maker of high-end amplifiers, preamplifiers, phono stages and loudspeaker systems, founded in May 1973 by Manuel Huber and based in Egg bei Zurich. It began as an R&D and acoustic consulting firm and moved into amplifier produ...

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Focal is a French maker of loudspeakers and headphones, founded in 1979 by engineer and technology journalist Jacques Mahul as a small acoustics research office. Today it covers home hi-fi, car audio, studio monitors, custom installation speakers and...

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Focal Professional is the studio monitoring arm of Focal, the loudspeaker company founded in 1979 in France and based in Saint-Etienne. It builds active monitors and subwoofers for recording, mixing, post-production and broadcast rooms, using the tra...

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Fosi Audio is a Chinese maker of compact amplifiers, DACs and related desktop hi-fi gear, founded in January 2017 by Ryan Huang in the Longgang district of Shenzhen. It started in a 10 square metre office with DIY audio boards and has grown into a br...

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Fostex is a Japanese audio brand launched in June 1973 by a Tokyo-based component maker established in 1948, which still owns it. It is known for loudspeaker drive units, semi-open and closed headphones, studio monitors and microphones, and in earlie...

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Fractal Design is a Swedish hardware company founded in 2007 by Hannes Wallin in Gothenburg. It is known for PC cases, liquid coolers, fans and power supplies with plain Scandinavian styling, and it is only a recent arrival in audio, with a single he...

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Franco Serblin is an Italian loudspeaker brand from Vicenza that carries the name of Gianfranco Serblin, the designer who founded Sonus Faber in 1983 and left it in 2006. After leaving he spent about five years on a single new design, the Ktêma, rele...

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Frank Schroeder is a German developer based in Berlin. His approach to creating tonearms is quite unique: he approaches the task more like a master luthier (a manufacturer of stringed instruments), rather than as an industrial engineer.

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Fresh 'n Rebel is a Dutch brand of mobile audio and tech accessories, founded in 2013 in Rotterdam, where it is still based. It makes Bluetooth speakers, headphones, earbuds, power banks and related gear, and its main identity is colour - products co...

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Furutech is a Japanese maker of audio and video cables, connectors, power distribution products and accessories, established in April 1988 and based in Shinagawa, Tokyo. A group of individuals set it up as an independent private company that first ac...

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Fuse Audio is a California company founded in 2016 by Joseph Wu that makes vertical record players. Its best known product, the GLD, was shown at CES 2025 and raised over USD 627,000 from more than 2,500 backers on Kickstarter, against a goal of USD ...

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Fyne Audio is a Scottish loudspeaker maker founded in 2017 by former Tannoy staff, after Music Group bought Tannoy in 2016 and announced cuts at its Coatbridge plant. The company is based near Glasgow and builds hi-fi, home theatre and custom install...